The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-04-12
A NEW PLAN PROPOSED
For Paving tho Straa,r-a Substitute for The
ordinance.

Ordinance.
At least ono substitute hos been pre-
pared for that part Of the annual appro
priation ordinance gotten up by thu
Finance Committee and to be presented
to Council this evening, tins. provides
where and how the money appropriated
to the Board Of Public Works is 10 BE-
speut. The substitute, it is understood,
has been prepared and will be offered by
Mr.. Edward Robertson, member from the
Fourth ward.
1t proposes to dispose OF the SIT, 793, 81
that is available for the Boards purposes
rs an appropriation fund and the eeti-
mated revenue OF $1,000 from the ten
cent levy rs iolows: Paving Fourteenth
street from Chspline to Wood, $1,000;
completing the paving on Main street be-
tween Ninth and Third, 5000; complet.
ing paving Of Alley is between Main and
Market streets, 800; paving Main street
from Third to Ionathan's ravine; from
Ninth to Eleventh street; from Twelfth to
Tweuty.iourtb, and on T~ensy.fourth
street from Main to the pavement on
Chspline street $50, POS 81 grayeling South
Front street, Island, from Virginia to the
Fair grounds, $500; completing the paving
OF the East Wheeling improvement
Chapline from Sixteenth to Eighteenth;
Eighteenth to EoH; E,ti to Nineteenth,
and Nineteenth 10 Jacob, and in addition
Eighteenth street from Loft 70 Wood,
Sl5,GS7, Of which $1,000 is to be- taken
from the ten cent levy fund, the remain.
ing 81 600 OF this fund to be used for paw
ing with co6blea, cutters @! sIfeets on the
Island that have never been improved. ut
The substitute provides further, that
in case any, Of the amounts appropri-
atcd be not sufficient 10 complete the work,
the deficiencies and the amounts necessa-
ry Tor the sewerage and Curbing shal! be
met out ..of tho Boards contingent fund.
The paving OF Seventeenth: street from
Market to Ohapline street, which must be
done before Mr.. Fisher will release the
same TO the city, the Board ia ordered to
paylor out otits continSentiund. The sub
st;tVte, unlike the committees ordinance
ioca not Btate that the Board shall use vitri-
fed blockg for certain work but allowa tito
use either the blocks or bricks as they may
choose. The substitute also has proyi-
sion compelling the Board to advertise for
bids on the contracts for the,paving order
cd, In such sections or parts rs will insnre
tho completion oil the whole within the
year and not leave q large part unfinished
..s WAS tho casa with last years. contracts.
Tho substitute differs from the COM
nittoo's ordinance, In that It names speui-
fed BnnB Tor the work ordered and does
not contain attached to each amount the
words sand rs much moro an may be
uecossary." II adt!s $1,000 to the Four.
teenth street work; It specifies what work
il be done, on the leland 1t docg not make
any equa! divide Of about $4,000 In the
eight wards; it provides for extending the
paving ordered for Eighteenth street for
two squares, and It provides for tho pay.
ing OF Main stree. from the ravino nj the
north to Twonty-fonrtf street, and con.
tinucs the paving up that street. to tho
Chapline street pavement, 40 that ono
could ride on brick paved ntreets from
Fortieth street to tho ravine.
II Is claimed that tho tigure1 given ia
tho substitute have been carefully com.
puted on actual measurements, and that
only few thousand dollars will DO do.
manded Of tho Board's contingent fund,
and that Of that fund it will have $40 600
TO use for cleansing and repairing streeta.
a Councilman epoasing Of thiu aubsti-
tu,e said, "a believe tina, ito provisions
will meet with Gs general approval Ne any |
Rcheme that could be devised; certainly il |
will be liked bottor than the committoO's |
plnn. Further, from what | can uu,ier.
stand, this provides about Whit tho Board !
~ants-a paved thoronghfare from ono
,nd Of town to tho other. md the ono
90, that ia the most usad." ile Said
nrther, in relation to tho argument
Int Colih.;i ought not to uny whore the
'oard should spend tho money appropri-
tod to it, that no thought tho Board hud
nvileI such nclion when, ut its meeting
With tho Committee on Streets md Alloya
or tho tho purpoap Of making mp the "a.
fmato OF tho amounts ncconsary for tho I
cnt'n work, tho Board merely Uaid, 1--WE !
'anl *HO,000," ind did not state what 1t {
'apsed It for, II